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Peter Barber Architects adds terraced houses to estate in south London

November 26, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sandpit Place housing by Peter Barber Architects

Peter Barber Architects has created six terraces of brick housing in Chalton, south London, for Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start. Named Sandpit Place, the development contains 32 homes in three rows of back-to-back terraced houses. Like the studio’s nearby Rochester Way scheme the homes were built for Meridian Home Start and will be available to those

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Camille Walala shares colourful vision to make Oxford Street a car-free shopping district

November 23, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

A visual of Camille Walala's proposal for a pedestrianised Oxford Street, London

French designer Camille Walala has reimagined London’s Oxford Street as a car-free landscape, filled with blocky street furniture finished in her signature colourful style. The eccentric proposal also envisions the use of patterned plant pots and geometric water features to convert the capital’s busiest shopping street into a fully pedestrianised area. Described by Walala as

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Reed Watts creates “discrete but identifiable” cricket pavilion in Richmond upon Thames

November 23, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK architecture studio Reed Watts has created a timber clubhouse for an amateur cricket team in London’s Bushy Park that is designed to be both modern and familiar. The sports pavilion was built to provide changing facilities and social spaces for Teddington Cricket Club, which has been based in Bushy Park – a Royal Park alongside

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Archmongers uses primary colours to revive a home in the modernist Golden Lane Estate

November 22, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

London studio Archmongers has renovated a duplex flat in one of the city’s most influential housing estates, using shades of red, yellow and blue to complement the modernist materials palette. The three-bedroom home is located within Hatfield House on the Golden Lane Estate, a complex designed and built in the 1950s by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon,

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Coffey Architects recalls industrial “found spaces” for King’s Cross office block

November 20, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

22 Handyside Street in King's Cross by Coffey Architects

UK studio Coffey Architects has created an office block at 22 Handyside Street that aims to recreate the feel of the former industrial spaces in King’s Cross, London. Built as part of the development of the King’s Cross area of London, the office block completes a row of buildings that contains the pink R7 building designed by

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Peter Barber Architects creates five terraces of affordable homes in Greenwich

November 19, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Rochester Way housing in Greenwich by Peter Barber Architects

Peter Barber Architects has created a development of brick housing and a microbrewery at Rochester Way in the London Borough of Greenwich. Built for the Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start, the scheme consists of 29 homes that will be available to those working locally at discounted rents. The homes are arranged along three pedestrian streets that

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Peter Barber Architects creates five terraces of affordable homes in Greenwich

November 19, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Peter Barber Architects has created a development of brick housing and a microbrewery at Rochester Way in the London Borough of Greenwich. Built for the Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start, the scheme consists of 29 homes that will be available to those working locally at discounted rents. The homes are arranged along three pedestrian streets that

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Dezeen commissions artist Kelly Anna to design artwork for Paddington Square

November 18, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0

Kelly Anna's artwork for Paddington Square

Dezeen and developer Sellar have teamed up to commission illustrator Kelly Anna to create an artwork to wrap around the site of Paddington Square, an upcoming development in London designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The development is centred on a crystalline building that will house 14 floors of light-filled workspaces with views across London.

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Foster + Partners adopts Spot the Boston Dynamics robot dog

November 13, 2020 India Block 0

Boston Dynamic's Spot robot dog assists architecture firm Foster + Partners at Battersea Power Station

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has employed a robot dog named Spot, designed by Boston Dynamics, to oversee construction at Battersea Power Station in London. The four-legged machine, which can walk up and downstairs and move across uneven ground, is being used to regularly scan the site to monitor progress at Battersea Roof Gardens. A

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Ola Jachymiak Studio brightens Beam cafe in London with orange hues

November 12, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

London's Beam cafe has exposed brick walls

Tangerine-coloured walls and terracotta-tile floors help enliven the formerly gloomy interior of Beam cafe in west London, designed by Ola Jachymiak Studio. Beam is nestled amongst a parade of shops in the affluent Notting Hill neighbourhood and serves up a menu of Mediterranean-inspired brunch dishes. Locally-based Ola Jachymiak Studio was brought on board to design

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